This twin study of nearly 14,000 UK adolescents found that body dissatisfaction at age 16 was linked to eating disorder ...

PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and a T32 postdoctoral research fellow in Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Eating ...

This network meta-analysis of 76 trials found that slow tapering (over 4 weeks) combined with psychological support was most ...

The Co-Pact study uses powerful images and narratives from 48 people to reveal how compulsory admission under the Mental ...

Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet, where she obtained her PhD in 2024. Her research focuses on inflammation-induced changes in human behavior, with a particular interest in ...

Researchers pulled together evidence from more than half a million people to test a simple but important idea: if childhood ...

Inpatient mental health services are meant to provide safe places for people experiencing mental health difficulties to receive support and recover, but for many, the reality is far from this ideal.

Welcome to the Mental Elf. This website will help you find just what you need to keep up-to-date with all of the important and reliable mental health research and guidance. Our team of mental health ...

Laura is a currently working as a research fellow at the La Trobe School of Rural Health. Laura completed her PhD at the University of Manchester where she explored the role of emotions in male ...

Microaggressions are simply defined as brief, commonplace daily verbal and/or behavioural slights or indignities that display hostility towards marginalised and minoritised people (Nadal et al, 2018).

Exercise-based interventions, potentially serving as either alternative treatments for depression or alongside medication and/or therapy, are recommended by the UK National Institute for Health and ...

A growing body of research suggests that disrupted interoception and affective touch might play a role in skin-picking disorder. This blog critically examines the first systematic review to map this ...